How to Use unanimity in a Sentence

unanimity

noun
  • So this seems to be a sort of rare moment of unanimity in the House.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Tonight was the first time some cracks showed in that unanimity.
    Dara Lind, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • There would be unanimity in such a case, or close to it.
    Brian Kalt, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Oct. 2017
  • But the lack of unanimity over the exhumation shows that the country has yet to agree on the past.
    The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • For the sake of unanimity, some of the language was weakened.
    The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
  • But the unanimity in which this case was dispatched was short lived.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2022
  • Because there has been a lack of unanimity in the walk-up shows this year, the race is seen as close and unsettled.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2022
  • And as to that, there is unanimity in Washington and in the country.
    NBC News, 26 Sep. 2021
  • That kind of unanimity is rare on such a big issue and not likely to come so quickly, if at all, in the House.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Tax reforms in the EU need unanimity among EU states, a factor that has blocked many overhauls in the past.
    Reuters, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The fallback for the lack of jury unanimity was a life sentence.
    Joey Jackson, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Inside the White House and the Pentagon, there is no unanimity on that point.
    New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Not long ago in the Arab world there was a modicum of unanimity on the primacy of the Palestinian cause.
    Ben Wedeman, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020
  • But there was near unanimity within the commission on the scale of the problem.
    Bob Kerrey and John C. Danforth, WSJ, 20 June 2021
  • Putin has been playing on the concept of unanimity for years.
    David A. Andelman, CNN, 16 May 2022
  • But unanimity is required to change the coaching rules at Grand Slam events.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • But the one thing that seems to be locked in unanimity for the most part is the lack of one consensus player that everyone can agree on.
    Clyde Verdin, NOLA.com, 29 July 2017
  • In early votes, there was near unanimity that Schulte was guilty, but one juror held out.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
  • The unanimity in steel country stands in sharp contrast to how the tariffs have played in Washington and around the country.
    David Weigel, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • If enforced and overwrought unanimity is the disease of today’s Democrats, chaos threatens to be the new GOP curse.
    Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 19 Feb. 2017
  • Pollio, though, wants a 7-0 vote to show unanimity for the important plan.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 27 May 2022
  • No such unanimity in the service of truth exists at the Capitol today.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • But there is no unanimity on how best to go about deterring Russia or what measures to take in the event of an attack on Ukraine.
    Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
  • There will be no unanimity, though, in how the new policy is received.
    Greg Cote, miamiherald, 23 May 2018
  • On sports radio in Louisville, fans were mixed about whether Pitino should have been fired, but there was near unanimity about Jurich.
    Joe Nocera, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • In a recent interview, three of the group’s leaders said they were surprised by the unanimity of the board’s vote to terminate the contract.
    Stephen Smiley, Slate Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
  • The unanimity rule has long stalled the bloc’s decision-making process.
    Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Their goal will be to persuade one juror to vote for a life sentence, as unanimity will be required to sentence Cruz to death.
    Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2021
  • No one seeks unanimity, and not reaching the same conclusion is OK.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2016
  • For present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity: All nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024

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